Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-23
The RESURREClION.
Easter the Queen of the Royal Court Of
the Sabbath.
All Nature Proves That the Dead Shall
be Raised.
The AFFINITY Between the Soul and tie
Body.

Bxo0ELYN, April To- To-day being
Easter Sunday the Tabernacle vas pyo-
fasely decorated with flowers. The
pulpit, the pillars and the galleries
we're one great garden of bloom. Prof.
Browne, the organist. and Prof. Alt,
the cornetist, rendered selections from
Handel, Haydn and Beethoven, appro-
pirate to the day celebrated. The sub
ject of DR.. Talmage's discourse was,
"The Overthrow Of the Monster and
his text, Isaiah Oh. 25 v. viii:
.HE WILL SWALLOW vi DEATH IN
VICTORY"
DIR. Talmage said:
About 1853 Easter mornings have
awakened the earth. In France for
three centuries the almanacs made the
year begin at Easter, until Charles TX.
made the year begin at January 1. In
the Tower of London there ia a royal
payroll of Edward l.. on which there
is an entry of eighteen pence for 400
oolored and pictured Easter eggs, with
which the people sported. In Russia,
slaves we're fed and aims were distri-
bSted on Easter. Ecclesiastical coun-
oils met at Pontus, at Gaul, at Rome,
Mt Achaia to decide the particular day,
and after a controversy, more animated
than gracious, decided it, and now
through all Christendom, in some way
the first Sunday after the full moon
which happens upon or next after
March FL, is filled with Easter ~rejoic-
Ing.
The Royal Court of the Sabbaths? is
made up Of ffty-two. Fifty-one are
princes in the royal household, but
EAsTER Is QUEEN.
She years richer diadem, and sways a
more jewelled sceptre. and in her smile
nations are irradiated. Unusually
welcome this year because of the harsh
winter and the late spring, she seems
to step out of the snow-bank rather
than the conservatory, come out of the
north instead Of the south, out of the
Arctic rather than the tropics, dis
mounting from the icy equinox; but
welcome this queenly day, holding
high up in her right hand the wrench
ed-otf bolt of Christ's sepulchre, and
holding high up in her left hand the
key to all the cemeteries in Christen-
dom.
Is is an exciting thing to see an army
routed and flying. They run each
other down; they scatter everything val
liable in the track; unwheeled artillery;
hoof of horse on breast of the wounded
and dying man You have read of
the French falling back from Sedan, or
Napoleon's track of ninety thousand
corpses in the snow-banks of Russia,
or of the retreat of our own armies
from Manassas, or of the five kings tum-
bling over the rocks of Bethoran with
their armies, while the hail-storms of
heaven and the swords of
JosHUA's HOST
struck them with their fury. In my
text is \ worse discontinue. 1t seems
that a black giant proposed to conquer
the earth. lie gathered for his host all
the aches and pains, and malarias aud
cancers, and distempers and epidemics
of the ages. He marched them down,
drilling them in the northeast wind and
amid the slush of tempes.s, He threw
ap barbados of grave-:a"unds. He
pitched the tent of the charnel house.
Some of the troops marched with slow
treE1. commanded by consumption,
some in double-quick, commanded by
pneumonia. Some he took by long be-
;siegement of evil habits, and some by
one stroke Of the battle-axe of casualty.
With bony hand he pounded at the
doors of hospitals and sick rooms, and
won I'll the victories in all the great
battle fields of all the five continents.
Forward, march! The conqueror of
conquerors, and all the generals and
commanders-ln-chief. and all the presi-
dents ard kings and sultans and czars
drop under the feet of his war.charger.
But one Christmas night his antagonist
was born. As most of the plaques and
sicknesses and despotisms come out of
the east, it was appropriate that the
new conqueror should come out of the
same quarter. Power is given Him to
awaken all the fallen of all the cen
turies and OF all lands, and marshal
them against the black giant. Fields
have already been won, but the last
day of the worlds existence will see
the
DECISIVE BATTLE.